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Xiaoli Carr
Almost two years ago I was following another family's story on the web. They were adopting a daughter from the Jiaozuo orphanage. They carried the director out to eat and little Xiao Li went along (she was 3 at the time). They posted all of this along with a picture and stated that she was deaf. When I saw her photo (the one above with her tongue out) I immediately knew that she was my daughter. Fast forward to Sept. of ’05...We are in China [adopting our son James] and met some Americans there. I mentioned Xiao Li and one of our new friends said she knew her. She also said that there was a family in America who wanted to adopt her. I just said a little prayer and asked God to make sure she got a good family. After we arrived home, we began to plan a trip for March of '06 to go back to the province to work in our son's orphanage and some other orphanages. Our friend in Henan was helping us do that. Unknown to us, she made arrangements for us to visit Xiao Li's orphanage. She also made it possible for me to meet one of Xiao Li's ayi's (via internet) who made it possible to us to spend the day with Xiao Li when we were at her orphanage. I had been told in Feb. that her file was being sent out and that the other family no longer wanted to adopt her. So, I began to search every waiting child list I could find and e-mail every program I could get a contact for. Turns out that her file was sitting on the secretary's desk that whole time. When we met the secretary in March, he told us he still had a few more questions to answer in her file. I got word about 3 weeks ago that her file was in Beijing. But I just continued to pray that wherever it ended up, we would find her and be matched. On June 24, we received a call from Dick and Cheryl at IAAP saying they had the file of the little girl we were looking for. Dick had save the e-mail I sent out back in Feb. And even though we had moved and all of our information had changed, he took the time to hunt us down on the internet in order to match us.
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